It’s a strange thing, to want to die. Stranger still when you don’t feel you deserve to get away so easily.
“I think I love him for this loneliness, that it's what pushed me toward him. I love his aloofness, his disengagement with the outside world. Such singularity moves me.”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
“But to learn to live, to learn it from oneself and by oneself, all alone, to teach oneself to live (“I would like to learn to live finally”), is that not impossible for a living being? Is it not what logic itself forbids? To live, by definition, is not something one learns. Not from oneself, it is not learned from life, taught by life. Only from the other and by death. In”
― Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International
― Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International
“I had the time to think all the way home about how affairs of the body are so much more preferable to affairs of the heart, but that sometimes you don't have the choice.”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
“(And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
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